‘Game of Thrones’ Director David Nutter to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor at the 2024 DGA Awards
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Veteran TV director David Nutter has been selected to receive the Directors Guild of America’s lifetime achievement award for distinguished achievement in directing.
He will receive the honors at the 76th Annual DGA Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 10, 2024. Nutter is only the sixth director to receive the recognition, following James Burrows, Robert Butler, Joe Pytka, Don Mischer and Robert A.
Fishman. “David has had a truly phenomenal directing career on so many of the most high-profile series in episodic television,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter. “To quote the cover of our own DGA Quarterly, David is truly the ‘King of the Pilots.’ His passion, creativity, and mastery of the craft over his expansive career underscores exactly why David serves as an inspiration to fellow directors everywhere.
On behalf of the Guild, I’m beyond thrilled to celebrate David’s talents and contributions to the art of directing.” Glatter noted that Nutter’s credits included pilots for “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” “Deception,” “Containment,” “The Flash,” “Arrow,” “The Mentalist,” “Supernatural,” “Without a Trace,” “Smallville,” “Millennium” and “Roswell,” among many others.
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